Motivational Quotes

Understanding

Understanding brings control.

- Bonewitz

Best Quotes about Understanding

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Sinclair, Upton

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.

King Jr. Martin Luther

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

Simpson, Homer

No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.

Klassen, V. I.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Hubbard, Elbert

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.

Russell, Bertrand

11.

We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

Roth, Philip

13.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Lao-Tzu

14.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

15.

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.

Hazlitt, William

16.

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

Saying, Zen

17.

The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

Kopp, Sheldon

18.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

19.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be --not understood, but divined.

Gourmont, Remy De

20.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

21.

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

Finley, Guy

22.

When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to understand his fellow men.

Mcgranahan, Norvin

23.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

25.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

Davis, Michael

26.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Giovanni, Nikki

27.

It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

France, Anatole

28.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

29.

It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.

Coty, Rene

30.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Kettering, Charles F.

32.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Augustine, St.

33.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

34.

The key to why things change is the key to everything.

Burke, James E.

35.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

36.

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

Rostand, Jean

37.

Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

38.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

Fulbright, J. William

39.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

40.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

41.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

Locke, John

42.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

44.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really understand them is bad morals.

James, Henry

45.

If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering.

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

47.

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.

Butler, Samuel

48.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

49.

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

Breton, Andre

50.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

Goldman, Emma